To: smolejv@gmx.net who wrote (8342 ) 5/10/2000 10:34:00 AM From: MonsieurGonzo Read Replies (1) | Respond to
> on gambling...gambling were American speakeasys of the roaring 20's, and european casinos filled with black & white gowned ladies and gentlemen depicted by Ian Fleming and the Broccoli brothers' James Bond films. As a young lady she was terribly disappointed to find herself alone while dressed to the nines during her first visit to Las Vegas. There she was, she says, high-heeled and chignon coiffed in a sea of men's leisure suits and ladies wearing stretch pants reflected in buzzing neon lights.reservations , Federal land grants where natives could squat in squalor but neither harvest crops nor control the mineral resources beneath their feet - opened bingo parlors in defiance of local BibleBelt ordinances. They were wildly successful at pulling in the puritan population and eventually offered the cards, dice and wheels of chance that entertain.rust belt that sprawls from Iowa to Pennsylvania went bust, and desperate little river towns began to harbour Gambling Boats as a means of reducing local unemployment in areas where neither farming nor industry could.entertaining about "playing with money", being utterly playful about something so vital to self esteem within this capitalist culture. When the little towns opened up floating casinos in their economic dead zones, keeping their bibles Gideon discreetly tucked away in hotel drawers, it was merely ironic. It did not become perverse until the States began to "tax" the working class via sanctioned lotteries .La Loteria along the border towns with Mexico; I remember seeing streams of tickets - they resembled fish scales - stapled to streetside kiosks in europe, when I was a child in St. Nazaire . I remember every bloke in Britain bought a lottery ticket when he went to his local for a pint. I remember when State Lottery came to California: "to support our local schools", post prop 13.lottery first came to Texas, which has no State income tax, and had no gambling (we used to drive to Louisiana to see our horses and dogs run) - hostesses at smart soirees passed out lottery tickets as party favours , while their black maids and Mexican gardeners bought bushels of them whenever they went to the grocery store: food stamps for food; cash para la loteria.gigantic , $350 million jackpot, multi-State lottery today... iow, that was "the news" over here; an ex-Governor of Louisiana got busted for gambling boat graft; the most popular show on American empTeeVee is "Millionaire", followed by "Antiques Roadshow" (you may have a fortune in your attic!) and then of course, there are TechStocks...our HOT TechStock picks: INTC MSFT CSCO and DELL ! "==> es wird beendet
